# Matte Painting: Creating Photorealistic Worlds | Domestika

> A course by Carles Marsal · Photography & Video · Intermediate
> 14 lessons (3h 4m) · 99% of the 1417 student ratings are positive

In this course, Carles Marsal teaches you his own technique for creating photorealistic worlds using the fundamentals of matte painting. Working from an initial sketch, compose a realistic scene from photographs, and incorporate each element using Brushes and proper lighting. Unleash your creativity and get astounding results!

Matte painting is a digital technique that allows the artist to create any scene imaginable by perfectly combining photographs and illustrations to achieve hyperrealistic results with astonishing detail. It can be used at a professional level across a range of fields including publishing, advertising, film, and video games.

This course can be taken alongside Carles' other course [Secrets of Photomontage and Creative Retouching](https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/122-secrets-of-photomontage-and-creative-retouching), where you can take your professional composition, retouching, and photographic lighting techniques a step further.

## Who is this online course for?

Illustrators, retouchers, digital artists, matte painters, conceptual artists, photographers, graphic designers, and any creative mind interested in photorealistic landscapes.

## What is this course's project?

Compose a matte painting and create your own imaginary world.

## Requirements and materials

Basic notions of Photoshop, like working with Layers, selection tools, Masks, and Brushes, are necessary for this course, as well as Adobe Photoshop and a graphics tablet. No drawing skills are required.

## Content

### I'm Carles, a pleasure!

In this unit you will know my artistic profile, some of my works and certain influences that I highly recommend.

### Ingredients for a new world

In this unit you will learn to create a sketch that allows you to develop Matte Painting in an efficient way to find those photographic resources that are most optimal.

### Raising the foundations

In this unit I will show you how to select, cut, assemble and integrate the base of the project.

### The secret is in the lighting and atmosphere

In this unit you will learn to give verisimilitude to the whole group. To achieve that both shadows and lights coexist in harmony, adding depth and an atmosphere that helps to give character to the scene.

### I made it, I'm God!

In this unit you will see a series of effects and final processes to get the most out of Matte Painting and give it that way.

## Audio and subtitles

**Audio:** Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish

**Subtitles:** Spanish, English, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Turkish

[Matte Painting: Creating Photorealistic Worlds](https://www.domestika.org/en/courses/85-matte-painting-creating-photorealistic-worlds)